Pine vs. Cypress — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Pine and Cypress
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Definitions
Pine
A pine is any conifer in the genus Pinus () of the family Pinaceae. Pinus is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae.
Cypress
Cypress is a common name for various coniferous trees or shrubs of northern temperate regions that belong to the family Cupressaceae. The word cypress is derived from Old French cipres, which was imported from Latin cypressus, the latinisation of the Greek κυπάρισσος (kyparissos).Species that are commonly known as cypresses include: Most prominently: Cypress (multiple species within the genus Cupressus)Otherwise: The family Cupressaceae also contains 13–16 other genera (not listed above) that do not bear cypress in their common names.
Pine
An evergreen coniferous tree which has clusters of long needle-shaped leaves. Many kinds are grown for the soft timber, which is widely used for furniture and pulp, or for tar and turpentine.
Cypress
An evergreen coniferous tree with small rounded woody cones and flattened shoots bearing small scale-like leaves.
Pine
A pineapple.
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Cypress
Any of various evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Cupressus, native to Eurasia and North America and having opposite, scalelike leaves and globose woody cones.
Pine
Suffer a mental and physical decline, especially because of a broken heart
She thinks I am pining away from love
Cypress
Any of several similar or related coniferous trees, such as the bald cypress.
Pine
Any of various evergreen trees of the genus Pinus, having fascicles of needle-shaped leaves and producing woody seed-bearing cones. These trees are widely cultivated for ornament and shade and for their timber and resinous sap, which yields turpentine and pine tar.
Cypress
The wood of any of these trees.
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Pine
Any of various other coniferous trees, such as the Norfolk Island pine.
Cypress
Cypress branches used as a symbol of mourning.
Pine
The wood of any of these trees.
Cypress
An evergreen coniferous tree with flattened shoots bearing small scale-like leaves, whose dark foliage is sometimes associated with mourning, in family Cupressaceae, especially the genera Cupressus and Chamaecyparis.
Pine
Intense longing or grief.
Cypress
A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.
Pine
To feel a lingering, often nostalgic desire.
Cypress
Wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus
Pine
To wither or waste away from longing or grief
Pined away and died.
Cypress
Any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones
Pine
To grieve or mourn for.
Pine
Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
The northern slopes were covered mainly in pine.
Pine
(countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
Pine
(uncountable) The wood of this tree.
Pine
A pineapple.
Pine
(archaic) A painful longing.
Pine
(intransitive) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
Pine
(intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.
Pine
(transitive) To grieve or mourn for.
Pine
(transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment.
Pine
Woe; torment; pain.
Pine
Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus. See Pinus.
Pine
The wood of the pine tree.
Pine
A pineapple.
Pine
To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
That people that pyned him to death.
One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.
Pine
To grieve or mourn for.
Pine
To suffer; to be afflicted.
Pine
To languish; to lose flesh or wear away, under any distress or anexiety of mind; to droop; - often used with away.
Pine
To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; - usually followed by for.
For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.
Pine
A coniferous tree
Pine
Straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus
Pine
Have a desire for something or someone who is not present;
She ached for a cigarette
I am pining for my lover